On Friday 19 December 2008 04:06, homoludens1000 wrote:
> The fundamental problem really is how to treat / store picture files.
> The smartest solution probably is to use some sort of picture album
> software like digiKam where one would leave files name as they are and
> categorize files through tags.
I don’t like those programs. Too many conditions must be met before they
work, too much investment in defining tags, too difficult to move between
systems, too messy to have a decent backup of.
And that even goes for the most reputable (Picaso, for instance)
> Perhaps I’m too much stuck with an old way of thinking about files, but
> I have a hard time getting used to the thought of having essentially one
> huge folder with thousands of pictures whose names don’t tell me
> anything unless I use a particular program (and where a program error /
> bug etc might, for instance, render all previously entered tags
> useless). So I’m using a hierarchical folder/file name = scene + date
> structure.
I completely understand your point of view, and share it. People seem to
forget that there is a completely stable, lightweight and portable way of
identifying subjects and assigning files to them: directories.
I have a friend who’s a pro photographer. She’s very good at what she
does, but thought it was a good idea to store her 80.000+ images in a
Picasa database. One crash and recovery later, we agreed on a structure
of project directories with a reference to the client’s name and date.
> I should probably read up on the issue a bit and/or starting a post on
> this topic. Actually very intriguing.
For my own pictures (mostly family and friends), I have a common archive
to store the originals. Any other work goes elsewhereand is allways based
on a copy. But nothing is touched in the originals.
The archive has a common dir, then the year in the seconf level, and the
full date+description in the third level. Works just fine for me.
For a series of pictures taken over several days (vacation), a date range
can be used.
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